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  1. Re:Is it sad on Post-9/11 DOJ Tech Project Dying After 10 Years? · · Score: 1

    Since that is only like 4 hours worth of military spending it is really not all that surprising.

  2. Re:DDoS? on Anonymous Takes Down DOJ, RIAA, MPA and Universal Music · · Score: 1

    Taking down the a government site could very easily end these people up being indefinitely detailed as terrorists or if they are lucky decades in jail. That is hardly a cowardly act.

  3. Re:DDoS? on Anonymous Takes Down DOJ, RIAA, MPA and Universal Music · · Score: 1

    Well what did you want them to do? a DDoS is doable and something you can at least get away with. It is non-violent resistance, they are not leaking government data, they are not planting bombs, they are simply causing their enemies an annoyance and getting noticed by them and everyone else.

  4. Re:Part of a money conflict within the King family on A Copyright Nightmare · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well obviously decency and a willingness to risk your own life to make the world a better place can skip a few generations.

  5. 1 guy on Statisticians Uncover the Mathematics of a Serial Killer · · Score: 3

    You don't build a statistical model off of a single person.

  6. Re:More importantly, on Radioactive Concrete From Fukushima Found In New Construction · · Score: 1

    There is nothing wrong with a little work, it is better then forcing all the prisoners to do nothing.
    The absolutely least likely thing to stop someone from continuing to do drugs is putting them in prison.

  7. Re:Everyone already can do this on Workers In Brazil Can Claim Overtime For Answering Email After Hours · · Score: 1

    Same as Canada, but normally at least (not sure about the law) you need a full time week to get any overtime during the week (weekend is always overtime).

  8. Re:Everyone already can do this on Workers In Brazil Can Claim Overtime For Answering Email After Hours · · Score: 1

    Same as Canada, nut normally at least (not sure about the law). you need a full time week to get any overtime during the week (weekend is always overtime).

  9. Re:Everyone already can do this on Workers In Brazil Can Claim Overtime For Answering Email After Hours · · Score: 1

    "If I have to think about work for half an hour I will keep thinking about it after that time, and it will impinge upon me."

    That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard.
    If your job involves complex problem solving (you get paid to think) then obviously you can change them for overtime contemplation.
    If you are saying every time you are reminded of work you spend hours uncontrollability and un-constructively thinking about it, like a tune stuck in your head. then of course you cannot.

    Let me restate: if you are employed on an hourly basis and are doing any kind of work outside of work you can get overtime in whatever country you live.
    If your state has some specific minimum number of hours for at home work then you get that.
    It does not matter if they phone you, email you, or just shout very loudly in your general direction.

  10. Everyone already can do this on Workers In Brazil Can Claim Overtime For Answering Email After Hours · · Score: 1

    If you work after hours (no matter what you are specifically doing) and you are employed on a hourly basis then of course you can claim overtime.
    You do not need a specific law for this.

  11. Automate it on Code Cleanup Culls LibreOffice Cruft · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sounds like they already put a lot of work into this, but someone should tell them that you can automate things like removing unused code.

  12. Re:Watch out Indonesia on Totally Drug-Resistant TB Emerges In India · · Score: 2

    Why unfortunately?
    It seems to me, if you had to have a incurable decease in your country you would want it to be quarantined, an to infect the people you like the least. A prison seems like the best place to have diseases, where else would you want it? In nurseries, in supermarkets?

  13. Re:Not *totally* drug resistant on Totally Drug-Resistant TB Emerges In India · · Score: 0

    There are alternatives to antibiotics you know.

  14. Re:Good on Reddit Turning SOPA "Blackout" Into a "Learn-In" · · Score: 1

    Ya, everyone knows that Google and Facebook are only use by the technically knowledgeable. /Sarcasm

  15. Re:Yes! on Are Programmers Ruining the Design of eBooks? · · Score: 1

    not necessarily, single commands can be very very long while the equivalent in a GUI can be a single click.
    It all depends on what you are doing.

  16. Re:Ron Paul! on Ask Slashdot: Which Candidates For Geek Issues? · · Score: 1

    No one has absolute liberty, that is like saying if you really have liberty then murder should not have any consequences forced on you by a ruling entity.
    A free market is for the most part about freedom to trade goods and services, but a working free-market absolutely needs some freedoms restrained.

    And at the end of the day, the freedom granted by a free market is probably one of the lesser freedoms (if such exists).

  17. Re:Yes! on Are Programmers Ruining the Design of eBooks? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They are different, you cannot really compare the speeds. doing many things by command line simply takes a lot of typing and clicking can be quite fast.
    Also the gui does a far better job of stopping the user from looking up how to do things and customization, both of which can waste a lot of time.
    And I don't care who you are, either you have every single command memorized (with every single argument as well) and you have wasted, probably months of your life learning these things or more likely just know some small subset and have to look up news ones on occasion.
    Every second spent learning how to use a computer and customizing a computer is wasted, and if it can be trimmed down with a better interface then you have just created a better interface.

    So the answer: After tens years of practice, uncountable hours (probably closer to days or weeks in some cases) reading man pages, and a similar amount of time creating custom scripts I can now use my computer 25% faster then GUI users (as long as I only do normal every day tasks) is not a shining recommendation for the command line.

  18. Re:Ron Paul! on Ask Slashdot: Which Candidates For Geek Issues? · · Score: 1

    "There's no better system for economic success"
    Actually I would say that a working free market scenario is meant to promote liberty. The entire idea is horribly inefficient and the direct opposite of economically effective.

  19. Re:So let me get this straight on Could a Dirty Rag Take Out a $2 Billion Satellite? · · Score: 1

    The satellite had a redundant engine?

  20. So let me get this straight on Could a Dirty Rag Take Out a $2 Billion Satellite? · · Score: -1

    The government receives an almost 2B dollar completely broken satellite (the engine will not turn on).
    Instead of someone testing if it will even run they just throe it up into space.
    They now finally try to turn it on and it fails.
    We are now waiting for it to come crashing down to earth.

  21. New Buzz Word? on Israel Says It Will Treat Online Credit Card Theft As It Would Terrorism · · Score: 1

    I guess terrorism is now just one more meaningless buzz word.
    I imagine that defining the work "terrorist" as "criminal" helps to get around a lot of that unnecessary red tape of the justice system.

  22. Re:For me, this begs the question on Canadian Gov't Considers Plan To Block Public Domain · · Score: 1

    And Shakespeare would say that you sound like a fool and should stop using language incorrectly.

  23. It Depends on Are Brain Teasers Good Hiring Criteria? · · Score: 2

    Brain Teasers definitely test something.
    If for example you are applying to a brain teaser solving/creation company then it would be ridiculous not to have to solve a few to get in.
    If you are using one to test mental flexibility, well that can be as useful as being able to churn out well made and documented code, for the appropriate job.

  24. Re:Bullshit on Edison Would Have Loved New Light Bulb Law, Says His Great-Grandson · · Score: 0

    Exacly what I was going to say. You don't have to know much about Edison to know that he was far more interested in self profit then technical advancement.

  25. Re:Really? on How Doctors Die · · Score: 1

    But harm is defined.
    And I already stated that harm is often inevitable, so the lesser of two harms is the only path available in that case.
    Piercings are not performed by doctors. And it could be said that while doctors perform cosmetic surgery they are not practising healing (a necessity to be a MD) when they are shoving plastic inside of someone and are not in a MD role at that time (and besides harm includes psychological).